May 13th, 2006
TopGolf uses RFID-enabled balls to track distance and accuracy
By Chief Gadgeteer, Gizmos for Geeks
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews.
Just caught this in Wired magazine - a driving range for the digital age. TopGolf is not a virtual range or anything like that; it just uses golf balls embedded with RFID chips to track your distance and accuracy. You just need to hit it into of the 10 ’scoring zones’. TopGolf is also a game - you score points based on those factors. If you’re in England, there are already a bunch of TopGolf gamecentres, as they are called. In the US, the only location is currently in Washington, DC. Stay tuned for locations in Dallas and Chicago this year.
Source: Gizmos for Geeks.
Vegas Guy says:
Another case of 75% thinking. With my new “HoleSeeker” ™ GPS-enabled guided ball, you simply download the pin geocoords from your Web/GPS-enabled cell phone to the ball and fire away. Provided you supply sufficient velocity, the onboard guidance actuators create slight deformations in the dimpled ball surface, modifing the airflow around the ball (or rolling characteristics if you are on the putting surface) to guide it to the hole. Once I figure out how to keep the balls from exploding on contact with water hazards, I plan to make a fortune………and no, I did not steal this idea from Rodney D in Caddyshack…that was some ridiculous guided putter…like that’s really gonna work!
May 15th, 2006 at 9:56 am